The evening world., 1887-10-10

loved ner, ana ne DeRgeQ ner 10 come 10 MIN.
No mention Of her mother, merely pleading
that she would assert her rights Of woman
hood and love. This letter in her hand, she
sought her mother. The result is known.
Now she knew what her mother had said to
John that day in the parlor and that had
sealed his lips and caused him to try to give
her up. The effect Of the trial had been his
serious illness.
So she loved him as she had never loved
him before. And yet she dared not accede
mother, and OF Johns mothers account |!
Women regard the wrongs to the affections
with other eyes than men. John could glo-
riously, selishly see in her fathers feeling
for his mother but the strongest reason that
Rosy should marry the son of the loved
woman-it had been transmitted feeling that
had attracted John to Rosy and Rosy TO John,
for it must be that Johns mother had cared
for Rosy's father, and there had come O
lovers quarrel and two marriages in pique,
stantiated.. Yes, John, after going through
a spell of sickness. could all at once reason
that Rosy was held to him by double ties.
But Rosy must respect her mothers wrong,
must pity her dead father-.John's mother had
been the cause of Rosy's fathers death only
o little less directly than his wife had been.
And now Rosy must give John up2 She was in
the elm inclosure; she flung. herself to the
earth, not strengthened by the contact as he
hands and thought and thought. Must her
life be like her mothers, hard and bitter, be-
cause of withheld happiness?
Not like her mothers, for John loved her
Still men were but men-had not his mothers
that man to marry another woman? John
would marry again, and there would be ano-
Their woman like her mother-would 1t be
Johns wife, or the woman he loved? Yet
dared she against her mothers wishes2 Not
her mothers wishes, but her mothers chances
of eternity; for she knew that hatred such as
her mothers, irritability such as hers, meant
a small holding to divine promises and q be-
lief in the final readjustment Of earthly dih-
oulties; to go against her mother now meant
ruin Of many hopes, Of much love.
And how, even in heaven, could that one
earthly difficulty be adjusted 2-how could
the wife be loved by the husband when he
fathers he had made her mother as she was,
had weakened the strong. woman faith in di-
vine things. had ruined the life of his daugh-
ter, had virtually committed suicide:
And Johns life without her would be as
her father'si Nay, 1t all reyolyed about
Johns mother after all she had driven q
loving man to do as he had done, she had
made o loving woman q spiritual failure
Johns mother was the sinner, she must take
the responsibility, of the wtong-doing. And
Must Rosy DO like Johns mother unjust
she be responsible for his acts, for mis- prob
able wife's unhappiness? Poor mother !
She pitied her mother for the trst time, felt
drawn towards her, saw in her Johns wife OF
twenty years hence. And then she took
Johns letter from her pocket, tore up a bit
OF sward and laying It there covered the
l. 1uld over 1t. She buried her hope Of hap
piness with that letter she would take the
responsibility similar to that VI Johns
mother for sake Of her own m-used, suffer-
ing mother.
II was very quiet under the elms, but q
little bird on one Of the trees suddenly be-
gan to sing. That song was more than she
could bear she wreathed her arms around
her head and rocked herself TO and fro the
very ecstasy of grief,
She knew. that the bird stopped singing, ,ss
though II had been frightSpsd away shs
head ON her knee, she did not look up, sod
dan with grief as she was.
Had abe raised her eyes Ihe would have
seem . grizzled face set In . frame Of leavos
o pair OF burning eyes fixed upon her. These
eyes had watched her bury. the letter, had
noted her conflict with herself before that ,
they noticed her convulsed form settling
into Q dead calm that WIS the prasAge Of
more than the death Of the msEe body. Then.